What if you try to move all your folders? What if you see moving your desktop folders creates another folder? What if you try to copy it back, and end up it moving your entire profile folder into your desktop folder? What if your AppData folder is now not in its defualt location?bennisboy wrote:
dude, right click on my documents, location tab , move.=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Im on Vista and overall its pretty good.
However - you get like 3 dialogue boxes just for making a new folder and everything needs your special permission.
Also, theyve made it soo fucking hard to move your documents folder to an external hard drive. It is actually driving me insane, and im no pc nub. Its all to do with their use of virtual folders / NTFS junction points....
Its taken 3 reformats so far, and im going for a forth and final tonight.
I kinda love it and hate it. meh.
Didnt have a problem with any of that=Karma-Kills= wrote:
What if you try to move all your folders? What if you see moving your desktop folders creates another folder? What if you try to copy it back, and end up it moving your entire profile folder into your desktop folder? What if your AppData folder is now not in its defualt location?bennisboy wrote:
dude, right click on my documents, location tab , move.=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Im on Vista and overall its pretty good.
However - you get like 3 dialogue boxes just for making a new folder and everything needs your special permission.
Also, theyve made it soo fucking hard to move your documents folder to an external hard drive. It is actually driving me insane, and im no pc nub. Its all to do with their use of virtual folders / NTFS junction points....
Its taken 3 reformats so far, and im going for a forth and final tonight.
I kinda love it and hate it. meh.
I used Vista for a while, but went back to XP. All the games I played were laggier. I didn't have any problems with any program compatibility though, as I had feared.
I love Vista. I love the look, the feel, the way things are...but unfortunately it uses a lot more RAM than XP does, and therefore a lot more games are laggy on 2GB. Maybe 3 - 4 GB would make it better.
I love Vista. I love the look, the feel, the way things are...but unfortunately it uses a lot more RAM than XP does, and therefore a lot more games are laggy on 2GB. Maybe 3 - 4 GB would make it better.
I'm on it here at home, it's too much eye candy for me; plus it uses up a lot of resources. I'd stick with XP.
I'm on Vista Ultimate 64bit and using the SP1 beta. Cannot fault it. OS is faster than XP and 3D performance isn't far off that of XP either.
I have vista on a second drive so i can boot up on it if i choose to. I also have Vista on a VM (with no visual goodies) for development.
The fact is for me, the games I play are slower. I don't see anything compelling enough for a seasoned user to want to switch at this time. I imagine after the first couple of service packs it will be on the money. Eventually if you use windows you will switch. I saw the same type of thing when XP came out.
The fact is for me, the games I play are slower. I don't see anything compelling enough for a seasoned user to want to switch at this time. I imagine after the first couple of service packs it will be on the money. Eventually if you use windows you will switch. I saw the same type of thing when XP came out.
Vista still has some issues, but the compatibility is quickly evolving and new drivers are released on a daily base, in the end you'll have to go for vista 64b anyway, so I guess it couldn't hurt trying. Just be sure to have enough RAM when you go for 64b. for a 32b, 2g is enough, for a 64 bit I would rather go 4gb
And just disable all unnecessary eye candy, I did the same with XP, old classic view ftw.
And just disable all unnecessary eye candy, I did the same with XP, old classic view ftw.
The only problem with vista is it has no support for older stuff... Good luck finding drivers for anything thats over 3 years old.
I'm not too sure about the 64 OS bit thing catching on that quickly. I don't see it happening. Even now 64 bit versions of server products like SqlServer and BizTalk still are still not used to widely.De_Jappe wrote:
Vista still has some issues, but the compatibility is quickly evolving and new drivers are released on a daily base, in the end you'll have to go for vista 64b anyway, so I guess it couldn't hurt trying. Just be sure to have enough RAM when you go for 64b. for a 32b, 2g is enough, for a 64 bit I would rather go 4gb
And just disable all unnecessary eye candy, I did the same with XP, old classic view ftw.
Eventually it will be.
Last edited by jsnipy (2007-12-05 11:37:19)
Vista is great.
I do like the aero interfaceelite.mafia wrote:
Vista is great.
I love Vista. So much.
Only thing I don't like is the permissions. Every time I open up last.fm, cpu-z or a variety of other programs, it asks me for permission. Doesnt' bother me that much though.
Only thing I don't like is the permissions. Every time I open up last.fm, cpu-z or a variety of other programs, it asks me for permission. Doesnt' bother me that much though.
Turn off UAC. Thats what i did and it stops those permission things from coming up.Poseidon wrote:
I love Vista. So much.
Only thing I don't like is the permissions. Every time I open up last.fm, cpu-z or a variety of other programs, it asks me for permission. Doesnt' bother me that much though.
Where's that? :Scian1500ww wrote:
Turn off UAC. Thats what i did and it stops those permission things from coming up.Poseidon wrote:
I love Vista. So much.
Only thing I don't like is the permissions. Every time I open up last.fm, cpu-z or a variety of other programs, it asks me for permission. Doesnt' bother me that much though.
I've ran Vista since the day it came out.
Vista is so picky on the hardware it runs on- one of my systems get a CTD every 24 hours guaranteed.
My other system hasn't had a CTD on vista yet- i've had it for 4 months.
Vista eats memory more than XP- if you only have a med system- ~ 1Gb RAM, and game, you need atleast a dual boot (as i had for a while), or just don't do vista.
The best bit about vista is the new sexy interface- Aero rocks, the sidebar is so sexy and customisable, and things generally are more helpful- the sidebar is better designed, and the search feature really makes a difference.
It has its problems though- The contant administrator priv. requests are annoying, but you get used to them after a while, and can be turned off- but then you get the red alert balloon in the system tray 24/7.
Overall, if you have a high system, definately get it, if you have a med system, and don't game a lot, get it.
Vista is so picky on the hardware it runs on- one of my systems get a CTD every 24 hours guaranteed.
My other system hasn't had a CTD on vista yet- i've had it for 4 months.
Vista eats memory more than XP- if you only have a med system- ~ 1Gb RAM, and game, you need atleast a dual boot (as i had for a while), or just don't do vista.
The best bit about vista is the new sexy interface- Aero rocks, the sidebar is so sexy and customisable, and things generally are more helpful- the sidebar is better designed, and the search feature really makes a difference.
It has its problems though- The contant administrator priv. requests are annoying, but you get used to them after a while, and can be turned off- but then you get the red alert balloon in the system tray 24/7.
Overall, if you have a high system, definately get it, if you have a med system, and don't game a lot, get it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- … ows-vista/Poseidon wrote:
Where's that? :Scian1500ww wrote:
Turn off UAC. Thats what i did and it stops those permission things from coming up.Poseidon wrote:
I love Vista. So much.
Only thing I don't like is the permissions. Every time I open up last.fm, cpu-z or a variety of other programs, it asks me for permission. Doesnt' bother me that much though.
Vista does suck, it makes your computer blow up. I still have XP cuz it's better right now I'm getting Vista by the end of 2008
So you dont have it but know its rubbish?suomalainen_äijä wrote:
Vista does suck, it makes your computer blow up. I still have XP cuz it's better right now I'm getting Vista by the end of 2008
I don't know how anyone can use Vista with UAC turned on, its annoying as f**k. Turn it off and to get rid of the alert ballon go:Titch2349 wrote:
It has its problems though- The contant administrator priv. requests are annoying, but you get used to them after a while, and can be turned off- but then you get the red alert balloon in the system tray 24/7.
Control Panel > Security > Security Centre > On the left go to 'Change the way security Centre alerts me' > Select 'Don't notify me and don't display the icon' . There you go, problem solved
Last edited by Drykill (2007-12-05 13:36:24)
wow you talk pretty confident about vista. you are actually wrong, he just might be very sorry he updated to vista. not everything will work in vista and if you like good sound then vista is a no no. its not mature enough (yet).kylef wrote:
Hi
Windows Vista is great! You won't regret upgrading. I play Battlefield2, Call of Duty 4 etc all fine on this system with Windows Vista! It's very nice looking, a bit safer and generally it has fixed a whole raft of problems XP had. Make the move, you won't regret it!
WHAT? my custom Vista drivers for my creative sound card are better than the official XP ones!.Sup wrote:
wow you talk pretty confident about vista. you are actually wrong, he just might be very sorry he updated to vista. not everything will work in vista and if you like good sound then vista is a no no. its not mature enough (yet).kylef wrote:
Hi
Windows Vista is great! You won't regret upgrading. I play Battlefield2, Call of Duty 4 etc all fine on this system with Windows Vista! It's very nice looking, a bit safer and generally it has fixed a whole raft of problems XP had. Make the move, you won't regret it!
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do they support hardware acceleration? since hw accel. is better than software.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
WHAT? my custom Vista drivers for my creative sound card are better than the official XP ones!.Sup wrote:
wow you talk pretty confident about vista. you are actually wrong, he just might be very sorry he updated to vista. not everything will work in vista and if you like good sound then vista is a no no. its not mature enough (yet).kylef wrote:
Hi
Windows Vista is great! You won't regret upgrading. I play Battlefield2, Call of Duty 4 etc all fine on this system with Windows Vista! It's very nice looking, a bit safer and generally it has fixed a whole raft of problems XP had. Make the move, you won't regret it!
wait a sec. I'll make sure hw acceleration works... It should since these drivers have everything that the xp ones had + some x-fi stuff even for my Audigy.Sup wrote:
do they support hardware acceleration? since hw accel. is better than software.
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well maybe new xfi vista drivers came out, i dunno. BUT! this vista driver i have -7Oct07_ X-FI Driver- which i thought was the latest does NOT support hw acceleration! only in game you can use the Alchemy software to get it.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
wait a sec. I'll make sure hw acceleration works... It should since these drivers have everything that the xp ones had + some x-fi stuff even for my Audigy.Sup wrote:
do they support hardware acceleration? since hw accel. is better than software.
why dont u run both like i do
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